1766
- A pasticcio called Love in a Village, with music by Thomas Arne and based on a play by Isaac Bickerstaffe, becomes a major part of the American theater repertory after performances in Charleston and Philadelphia; it is also considered the first English comic opera.
- Charleston, South Carolina, becomes home to the first musical society in the United States, the St. Cecilia Society.
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